PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION SOCIETY
2011 Preliminary Program
Thursday -- Friday -- Saturday -- Sunday
THURSDAY, March 24, 2011
Registration
Schedule: Friday (8am-noon, 2-5pm); Saturday (8am-noon); Sunday (8am-noon)
Book Display
Schedule: Friday-Saturday (8am-11pm); Sunday (8am-8pm)
6:00-9:00pm Executive Board Meeting
“Meet Me in St. Louis” Welcome Reception
FRIDAY, March 25, 2011
7:30-8:45am Breakfast Meetings
Committee on Professional Affairs (COPA)
Chair: Ron Glass (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Religion and Spirituality SIG
Chair: Martha Crowley (Teachers College)
9:00-10:15am Concurrent Sessions I
Critique of Critique: On Suspending Judgment and Making Judgment
Author: Barbara Applebaum (Syracuse University)
Respondent: Joris Vlieghe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Chair: Todd Loftin (University of Oklahoma)
Multicultural Teacher Education: Developing a Hermeneutic Disposition
Authors: Adrienne Pickett and Justin York (University of Illinois)
Respondent: Mordechai Gordon (Quinnipiac University)
Chair: Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer (University of Illinois)
On the Ethics of Teacher-Student Friendships
Author: Amy Shuffelton (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater)
Respondent: James Stillwagon (Iona College)
Chair: Jane Blanken-Webb (University of Illinois)
10:15-10:30am Break
10:30-Noon General Session I
Here’s to All the Cheaters
Author: Charles Bingham and Alma Krilic (Simon Fraser University)
Respondent: Michael A. Peters (University of Illinois)
Chair: Sarah Stitzlein (University of New Hampshire)
1:00-2:15pm Alternative Sessions I
Compassionate Imagining and the Four Brahmavihāras (Spirituality SIG)
Presenter: Claudia Eppert (University of Alberta)
Respondent: Daniel Vokey (University of British Columbia)
Chair: Martha Crowley (Teachers College)
Jacques Rancière: Education, Truth, Emancipation (Book Panel)
Presenters: Charles Bingham, co-author (Simon Fraser University)
Gert Biesta, co-author (University of Stirling)
John Baldacchino (Teachers College)
Race and Ethnicity in the Philosophical Imaginary (Committee on Race and Ethnicity)
Presenters: Barbara Applebaum (Syracuse University)
Ashley Taylor (Syracuse University)
Eduardo Duarte (Hofstra University)
Troy Richardson (Cornell University)
Chair: Frank Margonis (University of Utah)
Philosophy of Education and Empirical Research
Presenters: Walter Feinberg (University of Illinois)
Cris Mayo (University of Illinois)
Doris Santoro (Bowdoin College)
Amy Shuffelton (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater)
Chair: Terri Wilson (Southern Illinois University)
2:15-2:30pm Break
2:30-3:45pm Concurrent Sessions II
Is Democratic Mathematics Tracking Possible? Paul Ernest’s Differentiated Curriculum
Author: Erin Wilding-Martin (Parkland College)
Respondent: Fred Ellett (University of Western Ontario)
Chair: Victoria Costa (Illinois State University)
Perception, Context, and Silence: Reading Dewey While Listening to Cage
Author: Peter J. Nelsen (Appalachian State University)
Respondent: Nakia Pope (Winthrop University)
Chair: Ron Glass (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Religious Education and the Floodgates of Impartiality
Author: John Tillson (unaffiliated)
Respondent: Suzanne Rosenblith (Clemson University)
Chair: Bryan Warnick (Ohio State University)
3:45-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:15pm General Alternative Session I
Philosophy of Education Thirty Years after Martin’s Radical Presidential Challenge
Presenters: James Giarelli (Rutgers University)
Suzanne Rice (University of Kansas)
Susan Laird (University of Oklahoma)
Discussant: Jane Roland Martin (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Chair: Lynda Stone (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
5:30-6:30pm New Member Reception
7:45-9:00pm Alternative Sessions II
Tough Choices: Structured Paternalism and the Landscape of Choice (Book Panel)
Presenters: Sigal Ben-Porath, author (University of Pennsylvania)
Randall Curren (University of Rochester)
Anne Newman (Washington University)
Paula McAvoy (Illinois State University)
Bryan Warnick (Ohio State University)
Mediumism: A Philosophical Reconstruction of Modernism for Existential Learning (Book Panel)
Presenters: Chris Higgins (University of Illinois)
Gert Biesta (University of Stirling)
Megan Laverty (Teachers College)
Discussant: René Arcilla, author (New York University)
Cultivating Images in Education
Presenters: Rodino F. Anderson (Teachers College)
Carla Echevarria (School of Visual Arts)
James Stillwagon (Iona University)
Pedagogies of Listening in Comparative Perspective
Presenters: Suzanne Rice (University of Kansas)
Michael Katz (San Jose State University)
Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon (Northwestern University)
Eduardo Duarte (Hofstra University)
Glenn Hudak (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Chair: Leonard Waks (Temple University)
SATURDAY, March 26, 2011
7:30-8:45am Breakfast Meetings
Ethics SIG
Chair: Daniel Vokey (University of British Columbia)
Committee on Race and Ethnicity (CORE)
Chair: Troy Richardson (Cornell University)
Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession
Chair: Megan Laverty (Teachers College)
9:00-10:15am Concurrent Sessions III
On History Education and the Moral Demands of Remembrance
Author: Ann Chinnery (Simon Fraser University)
Respondent: Emily Robertson (Syracuse University)
Chair: Daniel Vokey (University of British Columbia)
Responsive Mentorship
Author: Mary Jo Hinsdale (Westminster College)
Respondent: Kathy Hytten (Southern Illinois University)
Chair: Debby Kerdeman (University of Washington)
“Uncivilizing” the Social Justice Classroom: Civility and Emotion in Critical Thinking
Author: Sally J. Sayles-Hannon (Syracuse University)
Respondent: Sarah Stitzlein (University of New Hampshire)
Chair: Winston C. Thompson (Teachers College)
The Promise and Limits of Online Learning: Re-Examining Authority in the Classroom
Authors: Paul Farber and Dini Metro-Roland (Western Michigan University)
Respondent: Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer (University of Illinois)
Chair: James Stillwagon (Iona College)
10:15-10:30am Break
10:30-11:45 Concurrent Sessions IV
Standardized Quantitative Learning Assessments and High Stakes Testing: Throwing Learning Down the Assessment Drain
Author: Matthew J. Hayden (Teachers College)
Respondent: A. J. Davis (Durham University)
Chair: Chris Peckover (University of Iowa)
Dialogue and Its Discontents: The Cognitive and Hermeneutic Forms of Dialogue
Author: Shilpi Sinha (Adelphi University)
Respondent: Rebecca Taylor (Stanford University)
Chair: Walter Okshevsky (Memorial University)
A Pedagogy of “Midwifery” for Self-Knowledge: Meeting Confucius and Socrates
Author: Rosa Hong Chen (Simon Fraser University)
Respondent: Barry Bull (Indiana University)
Chair: Gert Biesta (University of Stirling)
The Equality of Difference: A Phenomenological Ontology for Disability and Education
Author: Michael Surbaugh (University of Oklahoma)
Respondent: Glenn Hudak (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Chair: John Covaleskie (University of Oklahoma)
1:00-2:15pm Alternative Sessions III
Masculinity and Education (Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession)
Presenters: John Covaleskie (University of Oklahoma)
Joe Meinhart (Oklahoma City University and Oklahoma City Community College)
Amy Shuffelton (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater)
Discussant: Paula McAvoy (Illinois State University)
The Claims of Parenting: Reasons, Responsibility, and Society (Book Panel)
Presenters: Stefan Ramaekers, co-author (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Judith Suissa, co-author (Institute of London, Education)
Discussants: Ann Chinnery (Simon Fraser University)
Nicholas Burbules (University of Illinois)
Representation and Presentation in Education
Presenters: René Arcilla (New York University)
Jan Masschelein (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Paul Standish (University of London)
Does Teaching Ethics Make a Difference in the Lives of Students? (Ethics SIG)
Presenters: William Blizek (University of Nebraska, Omaha)
Bryan Warnick (Ohio State University
Donna Werner (St. Louis Community College)
Discussant: Michael Katz (San Jose State University)
2:15-2:30pm Break
2:30-3:45pm Concurrent Sessions V
To List or Not to List: Two Versions of the Capability Approach and Their Respective Implications for Democratic Education
Author: Tony DeCesare (Indiana University)
Respondent: Ashley Taylor (Syracuse University)
Chair: Josh Corngold (University of Tulsa)
Relational Self, Noddings’ and Levinas’ Ethics, and Education
Author: Guoping Zhao (Oklahoma State University)
Respondent: Natasha Levinson (Kent State University)
Chair: James Giarelli (Rutgers University)
The Poetics of Learning: Whitehead and Agamben on Rhythm
Author: Tyson Lewis (Montclair State University)
Respondent: Jane Blanken-Webb (University of Illinois)
Chair: Deborah Seltzer-Kelly (Southern Illinois University)
“For Credibility’s Sake Let’s Start with the Bad News”: A Pessimistic Pedagogy in the Age of Spectacle
Author: Trent Davis (York University)
Respondent: David Waddington (Concordia University)
Chair: Paula McAvoy (Illinois State University)
3:45-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:15pm Kneller Lecture
Envisioning Real Utopias
Kneller Lecturer: Erik Olin Wright (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Respondent: Eric Bredo (OISE, University of Toronto)
Chair: Jeffrey Milligan (Florida State University)
5:30-6:45pm Kneller Reception
7:45-9:00pm Alternative Sessions IV
Improving the Teaching of Philosophy of Education Courses
Presenters: Sarah Stitzlein (University of New Hampshire)
Mike Gunzenhauser (University of Pittsburgh)
Eric Bredo (OISE, University of Toronto)
Reason in the Balance: An Inquiry Approach to Critical Thinking (Book Panel)
Presenters: Sharon Bailin, co-author (Simon Fraser University)
Mark Battersby, co-author (Capilano University)
Discussants: Andrés Mejía Delgadillo (Universidad de los Andes)
Harvey Siegel (University of Miami)
The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional Practice (Book Panel)
Presenters: René Arcilla (New York University)
Deborah Kerdeman (University of Washington)
Daniel Vokey (University of British Columbia)
Discussant: Chris Higgins, author (University of Illinois)
Humor, Philosophy, and Educational Encounters
Presenters: Mordechai Gordon (Quinnipiac University)
Cris Mayo (University of Illinois)
A. G. Rud (Washington State University)
Barbara Stengel (Vanderbilt University)
SUNDAY, March 27, 2011
9:00-10:15am Concurrent Sessions VI
Addressing Students Responsively and Critically
Author: Frank Margonis (University of Utah)
Respondent: Alexander M. Sidorkin (Rhode Island College)
Chair: Shoubang Jian (SUNY Albany)
Reconsidering Dewey in a Culture of Consumerism: A Rousseauean Critique
Author: Grace Roosevelt (Metropolitan College of New York)
Respondent: Avi Mintz (University of Tulsa)
Chair: Peter Nelsen (Appalachian State University)
Okay, Well How about Applied Liberal Education? Making a Case for the Humanities through Medical Education
Author: Chris Martin (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Respondent: Chris Hanks (Grand Valley State University)
Chair: Stephanie Mackler (Ursinus College)
Integrity and Identity: Judgment and the Moral Self
Author: John F. Covaleskie (University of Oklahoma)
Respondent: Suzanne Rice and Kevin N. Hinegardner (University of Kansas)
Chair: Lynn S. De Jonghe (Windrush School)
10:15-10:30am Break
10:30-Noon Presidential Address
Patriotism without Bad Faith
Author: Eamonn Callan (Stanford University)
Respondent: Victoria Costa (Illinois State University)
Chair: Robert Kunzman (Indiana University)
12:15-1:45 Lunch Meeting
Jobs for Philosophers of Education Committee
Chair: Peter Nelsen (Appalachian State University)
2:00-3:15pm Concurrent Sessions VII
When Philosophies Collide: Dewey and Oakeshott on Politics and Education
Author: Fran Schrag (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Respondent: Eric Bredo (OISE, University of Toronto)
Chair: Suzanne Rosenblith (Clemson University)
Education, Participatory Environmental Politics, and Virtue
Author: Kyle Whyte and Matt Ferkany (Michigan State University)
Respondent: TBD
Chair: Yeuh-Mei Lin (University of Illinois)
Cultivating the Philosophical Imagination: Experiencing the Limits of Language with Wittgenstein, Foucault, and Habermas
Author: Kristopher Holland and David Phelps (Indiana University)
Respondent: Shelby Sheppard (Western Washington University)
Chair: Luiz Artur dos Santos Cestari (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia)
3:15-3:30pm Break
3:30-5:00pm General Session II
The Empty Chair: Education in an Ethic of Hospitality
Author: Claudia Ruitenberg (University of British Columbia)
Respondent: Claudia Eppert (University of Alberta)
Chair: Tony DeCesare (Indiana University)
5:15-6:30pm Business Meeting
8:00-9:00pm Works-in-Progress Session
Everyone is welcome to attend and contribute to these informal conversations between authors and discussants. Participants will meet and then find a comfortable place for their conversation.
Respect, Toleration, and the Integration of Immigrants
Author: Rebecca Taylor (Stanford University)
Discussants: Barry Bull (Indiana University)
Michael Merry (University of Amsterdam)
Autism and Rorty’s Pragmatism: Developing “Philosophical Advocacy” for Educators
Author: Glenn Hudak (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Discussants: Kathy Hytten (Southern Illinois University)
Lynn S. De Jonghe (Windrush School)
Who’s Enlightened Now? Seeking Critical Positionality in Today’s Ideological Wars about Education
Author: Sheron Fraser-Burgess (Ball State University)
Discussants: Judith Suissa (Institute of London, Education)
Anne Newman (Washington University, St. Louis)
School Funding and Arts Education
Author: Yueh-Mei Lin (University of Illinois)
Discussants: John Covaleskie (University of Oklahoma)
Suzanne Rosenblith (Clemson University)
Moral Reasons and Narrative Justification
Author: Shoubang Jian (SUNY Albany)
Discussants: Walter Okshevsky (Memorial University)
Daniel Vokey (University of British Columbia)
Lessons from the Arts: Harmony and Asymmetry in Education
Author: Guillermo Marini (Teachers College)
Discussants: Fred Ellett (University of Western Ontario)
Natasha Levinson (Kent State University)
Growth vs. Stability: Lewis Mumford’s Critique of Dewey’s Aim of Education
Author: Kurt Stemhagen (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Discussants: Eamonn Callan (Stanford University)
Eric Bredo (OISE, University of Toronto)
A Theorising Attitude in Educational Research
Author: Andrés Mejía Delgadillo (Universidad de los Andes)
Discussants: Gert Biesta (University of Stirling)
Susan Laird (University of Oklahoma)
Fads and the Circulation of Ideas in Brazilian Teacher Education
Author: Luiz Artur dos Santos Cestari (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia)
Discussants: Barbara Stengel (Vanderbilt University)
Robert Kunzman (Indiana University)
9:00-11:00pm Presidential Reception
Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend!
MONDAY, March 28, 2011
7:30-9:00am Executive Board Meeting
9:00-10:15am Concurrent Sessions VIII
Transcendence, Revelation, and the Constructivist Classroom; Or, In Praise of Teaching
Author: Gert Biesta (University of Stirling)
Respondent: Samuel Rocha (Wabash College)
Chair: Rosa Hong Chen (Simon Fraser University)
Teaching and Translating
Authors: Nicholas Burbules and Chris Higgins (University of Illinois)
Respondent: Harvey Shapiro (Northeastern University)
Chair: Adam Rappaport (Indiana University)
Can Perfectionism Withstand the Acknowledgment of Slavery?
Author: Jeff Frank (Teachers College)
Respondent: Deborah Seltzer-Kelly (Southern Illinois University)
Chair: Herner Saverot (University of Bergen)
10:15-10:30am Break
10:30-noon General Session III
Friends, Foes, and Nel Noddings on Liberal Education
Author: Daniel R. DeNicola (Gettysburg College)
Respondent: Nel Noddings (Stanford University)
Chair: Michael Katz (San Jose State University)
Noon Meeting Adjournment